The Open Governance Institute, on behalf of the Coalition of Participatory Governance, will host the webinar to present an assessment report that looks at the audit performance of 11 select county governments (Executive & Assembly).
The Youth Café in partnership with Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI), US Embassy intends to invite 20 young men and women to the event that will be held on Tuesday, 7th December 2021 at The Youth Café Office, S1, Kitisuru Gardens from 9.30 am - 12.30 pm. The objective of this event is to build the power of young men and women to impact change in the digital world, fight against corruption and closing civic space.
The 7th Annual Devolution Conference shall be held from 23rd - 26th November 2021 in Makueni County. The Youth Café is honoured to hold an exhibition during the event!
The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) is holding a meeting with representatives of Youth-led and Youth-serving Organizations across the country in Nairobi. The meeting will discuss areas of collaboration and institutional commitments to support voter registration and planned activities for the 2022 General Election.
The youth Café is conducting a project aimed at engaging the youth against corruption and the closing civic space in Kenya. As part of the activities in this project, a photo and video competition was created where contestants between the ages of 18 and 35 were expected to represent their scenarios of corruption through the photo and video mediums. We will be recognizing the efforts of all the young people who took the time to showcase their efforts in the fight against corruption and award the best 3 submissions.
The Conference seeks to stimulate debate and reflection on the importance of, and the key role played by, active citizens’ participation and local democratic governments in the modification of the negative trends of powerful, speculative interests that stand in the way of human rights, preventing tendencies the right to housing and the right to the city; while at the same time aligning the voice of those cities committed to realising the right to the city; the right of all inhabitants, both male and female, to live in cities that are more human, more habitable, more democratic, fairer and more solidary; and against the commodification thereof, which generates looting, segregation, gentrification and the destruction of the social fabric.
The Conference is to be organised around a series of plenary sessions, keynote speeches, round table debates based on thematic areas, territorial round tables based on the exchange of experiences, popular encounters inlocal districts, utopianroundtables, participatory innovation and creativity, cine- debate sessions, in which pride of place will be given to exchanges between participants. Parallel and organised networking activities may also be proposed by IOPD members; academic, political and municipal bodies, as well as the social networks and movements, which will then be selected by the programming committee on the basis of criteria of quality and diversity, and also depending on the availability of spaces.
Local actions will also be promoted in different cities throughout the year leading up to the 19th IOPD Conference, based on the different thematic areas to be dealt with at the Conference, cycles of conferences, cine-debates, workshops, seminars, etc. that reflect the plurality of the social and political actors involved. Likewise, at a worldwide level, the systematisation of experiences will be promoted, along with the contribution of theoretical inputs and remote interactive dialogues centred on the different thematic areas, concepts and approaches that are key to the stimulation of the debate. We invite all interested cities and local governments to promote and run workshops and seminars, or any other kind of events, throughout the world to debate these contents and, in this way, to enrich both the 2019 Conference and the Assembly.
The World Summit of Local and Regional Leaders, convened by United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG), is the largest gathering of mayors, presidents of associations, councillors, and local and regional practitioners from around the world. It also gathers the most influential local and regional leaders, councillors, local governments, partners, and actors implicated in the decision making of city and community life.
This year's edition, that will be held on 11-15 November in Durban, South Africa, will count on a renewed format and enhanced collaboration between members and partners.
Building on the centenary-old international movement of municipalities, the World Summit experience will include interactive and innovative formats built on four tracks that will guide participants, together with dedicated sessions for UCLG membership.
The International Day of Democracy provides an opportunity to review the state of democracy in the world. Democracy is as much a process as a goal, and only with the full participation of and support by the international community, national governing bodies, civil society and individuals, can the ideal of democracy be made into a reality to be enjoyed by everyone, everywhere.
The values of freedom, respect for human rights and the principle of holding periodic and genuine elections by universal suffrage are essential elements of democracy. In turn, democracy provides the natural environment for the protection and effective realization of human rights. These values are embodied in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and further developed in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rightswhich enshrines a host of political rights and civil liberties underpinning meaningful democracies.
The link between democracy and human rights is captured in article 21(3) of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which states:
“The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government; this will shall be expressed in periodic and genuine elections which shall be by universal and equal suffrage and shall be held by secret vote or by equivalent free voting procedures.”
The rights enshrined in the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and subsequent human rights instruments covering group rights (e.g.indigenous peoples, minorities, people with disabilities) are equally essential for democracy as they ensure an equitable distribution of wealth, and equality and equity in respect of access to civil and political rights.
DDI brings together scholars, journalists, community leaders, and civil society practitioners that use a range of strategies designed to improve civil society by encouraging citizen participation and advancing knowledge of democratic practices. Participants will explore the conditions under which citizens assume responsibility for changing their communities and consider the ways in which deliberative approaches may provide a possible mode for decision-making. This workshop, which is held every year, is designed to establish and encourage ongoing relationships and exchanges of ideas among participants that often take place across many years.
BACKGROUND
The 2030 Agenda, adopted in 2015, is a global development framework, which guides development policy and practice at national, regional and global levels until 2030. The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), an integral part of the 2030 Agenda, are a call to action to end poverty worldwide, to protect the planet, and to promote peace and prosperity for everyone, everywhere.
The SDGs do not constitute a process that is separate but rather a framework for action on different streams of work in development and environmental conservation. The 2030 Agenda, therefore, reaches across all aspects of government, including parliamentary business.
Parliament’s constitutional responsibility to steer its country’s sustainable development directly impacts SDG implementation and plays an integral role in realizing the 2030 Agenda by representing the interests of citizens and localizing the implementation of the SDGs through deliberate efforts to ensure action at the national level.
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Parliament Open Day 2019, themed “The Role of Parliament in realizing Agenda 2030” will bring together Members of Parliament, key agencies of the United Nations in Nairobi and Development Partners to critically examine the important role of Parliamentarians for the achievement of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The Youth Cafe is taking part in the dissemination workshop on a research recently conducted in partnership with VSO Kenya, The Ford Foundation on Youth Leadership and Governance.
The research was youth-led and explored deeply the views of the youth in regard to the provisions of Chapter 6 of the Constitution of Kenya. It sought to employ varied qualitative and quantitative approaches to better understand the barriers and enablers to youth leadership and meaningful youth participation and engagement in governance in 4 counties in Kenya; namely Siaya, Taita Taveta, Nandi, and Wajir. Together, we hope to plot the way forward in regard to increasing the level of youth participation in leadership and governance in Kenya.
The aim of the TAX TALK 29: “Accountability issues arising out of Kenya’s rising public debt” is to spark discourse on Kenya’s rising public debt.
It has been a frantic period since 13 March 2018, when President Kenyatta appointed Noordin Haji of the National Intelligence Service (NIS), as the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), to replace the lacklustre Keriako Tobiko, who is now Cabinet Secretary for Environment and Forestry. Almost simultaneously, Mr Kenyatta also appointed Paul Kihara, former President of the Court of Appeal as the Attorney General (AG) to replace Githu Muigai, completing what was seen as both a makeover and a clean-up of the ineffectual State Law Office1.
